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It's hard to say exactly what the percentage of Russians eager to beat up faggots in the street is. I'd assume it is mostly concentrated in the rural/small town chavs, with the older generations of the same class not as eager to do it themselves, but approving it otherwise.
Tangentially, in USA it seems that the prime thing a regular man fears about prison is ass-rape. In Russia, everybody knows that ass-rape in prisons is reserved for the underclass, such as faggots.
But yes, it really does show that American conservative "don't rub it in our faces" and Russian conservative "don't rub it in our faces" are vastly different levels of tolerance.
I would associate it, quite strongly, with high crime low income neighborhoods. Eg black ghettos, certain trailer parks. Ditto the use of 'fag'. On the other hand I'd associate 'it should be a crime' 'they're mentally ill' 'its like pedophilia- just unnatural' with the normal American reservoirs of social conservatism- religious and deep rural people.
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My understanding is that being gay on the outside was merely one of many ways you could become a petukh in Russian prisons. Online accounts agree that the local vor could declare any inmate to be a petukh based on broadly subjective grounds like "not defending his honour" or "behaving dishonorably towards another inmate" and that once you were raped once your status as a petukh was unambiguous across the whole prison system.
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